First announced for the big screen in 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mattel and Parkes+MacDonald/Image Nation’s upcoming live-action Barbie movie has finally landed a leading lady in Amy Schumer (Trainwreck, Inside Amy Schumer).
Schumer and her sister Kim Caramele are expected to rewrite the script, and a director is currently being sought.
The film is said by the trade to be, “a contemporary spin on beauty, feminism and identity” in the comedic-fantasy vein of Splash, Enchanted or Big.
Barbie is being produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Amy Pascal.